Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.