A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

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.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.