God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

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

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

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.

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.

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