The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

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

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.