“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”

Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.

That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.

I’ve lost my faith in science.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.