The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.