All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.