It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

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