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.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Truthfulness is godliness.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.