Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.
Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God’s self in the soul.
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.