He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

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

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.