A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

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.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!