Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

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.