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

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.