Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.