It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

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

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.