Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.