I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

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

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.