Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.

If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.