Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on God alone. When no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God--and God alone!

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.