A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.