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

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Religion is using everything for God.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.