Preaching is truth through personality.

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

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

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

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.