A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
Storms purify the atmosphere.
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. ‘By their fruits ye shall know them.’
The things that hurt us teach us.
Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
Discover what you are.
Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.
There are joys which long to be ours.
There’s not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.
I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.