The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.