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

There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Preaching is truth through personality.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.