Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
Liberty is the soul’s right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
The tidal wave of God’s providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Religion is using everything for God.
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
By religion I mean perfected manhood, – the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
All true religion must stand on true morality.
Refinement is the lifting of one’s self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.