There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.