If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.