Love is more just than justice.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.