Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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