If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

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.

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.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.