Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

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

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.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

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

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.