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

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

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

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

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?

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.