Ideals are the world’s masters.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
If you want learning, you must work for it.
A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins – particularly fashionable sins.
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
Immortality – twin sister of Eternity.
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man’s hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
If we will measure other people’s corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God’s inventory of national good.
Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.