If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.