Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.