Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

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.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.