The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.