The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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