There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.