It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

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

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.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.