A church debt is the devil's salary.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.