You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.