Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.