You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

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

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

Love is the river of life in this world.

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.