In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

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.