We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
