There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

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.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.