Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.