Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.