There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.