One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up.
The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.
Alas! how easily things go wrong!
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.
The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.
Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.
It’s right to trust in God; but, if you don’t stand to your halliards your craft’ll miss stays, and your faith’ll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.
What can money do to console a man with a headache?
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
God Himself – His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men’s home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.
It needs brains to be a real fool.
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.
But there is no veil like light – no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.
A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.