To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)