Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.