There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

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

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.