Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.