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.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

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