Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.