Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.