He is tenderest, not who has sinned, as is sometimes vainly thought, – but who has known best the power of sin, by overcoming it.

 Length without breadth is hard and narrow.   Breadth without length – sympathy with others in a man who has no intense and clear direction for himself- is soft and weak.

As I rub my way on in the journey of life, I find that goodness, real and unpretending, is the one thing of which one never wearies.

Christ sets His followers no tasks.   He appoints no hours.   He allots no sphere.   He Himself simply went about and did good.

…we yield more freely to the one who helps to foster our particular personality than to him who would thrust it aside, and replace it by his own.

Given a book, and anything may happen in the way of inspiration;  given a personality, and some Peter may leave all to follow Him.

 If we can catch a disease from certain persons, we can also catch health from others:  if some companions exhaust and depress, others equally exalt and vivify. 

A deep, true love will lift a soul out of the shallows of selfishness and the mud of fleshliness, when all other powers combined have failed to extricate it from the slough

Not by premeditated words, or ostentatious actions, but by the unconscious power of character, we mould others into the likeness of ourselves.  

And you ought not to be satisfied until you find yourself able to feel that the hope of doing something by your living to make the world in a real, although an un-appreciable, degree more full of these words for the men who are to follow us, is the noblest and most inspiring promise which can be set before your soul.