God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

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

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

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.