Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

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.

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.