Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

The world's one and only remedy is the cross.