Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.