It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

All good government must begin at home.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.