Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Some people are proud of their humility.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

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