Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.