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.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

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

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

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.