It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you but it is every thing to the young man.

You must make your own opportunities.

Reputation is for time character is for eternity.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.