The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.