Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

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

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.