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.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.