Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.