There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.