I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

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.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Storms purify the atmosphere.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.