It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.