Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.