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

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.