Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

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.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.