Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

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

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.