The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.