“Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.”

“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.”

“Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.”

“Six feet of dirt make all men equal.”

“A philosopher has remarked that if a man knew that he had thirty years of life before him, it would not be an unwise thing to spend twenty of those in mapping out a plan of living and putting himself under rule; for he would do more with the ten well-arranged years than with the whole thirty if he spent them at random. There is much truth in that saying. A man will do little by firing off his gun if he has notlearned to take aim.”

“All the devils in hell and tempters on earth could do us no injury if there were no corruption in our own natures.”

“The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.”