Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.