God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.