It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.