Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

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

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.