Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

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.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.