Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical texts. There is no harmless dreaming, no wise speculation in it, but everywhere a substratum of good sense. It never reflects, but it repents. There is no poetry in it, we may say, nothing regarded in the light of beauty merely, but moral truth is its object. All mortals are convicted by its conscience.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

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.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?