There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.