God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

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.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.