A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Love is the river of life in this world.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.