If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.