Impatience never commanded success.

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.

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

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.