Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

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.

A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.