Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.