The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.