Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.