The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.