The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.