Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

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

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

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.

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.