A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Mirth is God's medicine.