“We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.”

See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.