The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.