He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.