Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

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.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.