A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

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.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.