Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.