Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

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

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.