If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.