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.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.