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.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.