"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."

"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."

"Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly."

"If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of."

"We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit."

"You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine."