The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.