Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Practice is nine-tenths.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

The vanishing, volatile froth of the Present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the Adamantine Record of the Past.