It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

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.

Impatience never commanded success.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.