Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.
Men and brethren, a simple trust in God is the most essential ingredient in moral sublimity of character.
Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against all the might of external nature.
The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty.
There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
Character is made up of small duties faithfully performed—of self-denials, of self-sacrifices, of kindly acts of love and duty.
I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.
