Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Some of my best men are women!

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.