God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.