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.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

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.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.