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.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.