Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.