The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.