Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.