“To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.”
“No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.”
“We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.”
“Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.”
“Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.”
“Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
“Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble”
“Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.”
“Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.”
“Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it”
“There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.”
“If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.”
“Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.”
“We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.”
“Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.”
“"Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."”
“Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world”
“If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.”
“Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.”
“Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.”
“It needs more skill than I can tellTo play the second fiddle well.”
“We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.”
“There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”
“Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.”
