Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.