Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.