Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.