Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

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.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

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.

Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.