Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

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

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.