You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.