Birth: January 7, 1832 Death: April 12, 1902
You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body of men, tell you where you shal….
I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of b….
By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach..
If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand.….
The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comf….
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he pu….
I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations a….
A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts.
God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper..
Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed..
If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the jou….
At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling on, and it is going to w….
Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them to-day, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the streets. Here they are….
Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go hom….
The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here ….
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is ….
A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the atto….
Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who ….
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of t….
The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty ….
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off..