God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.