If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

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.

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.