Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.