God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
