In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

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

The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.

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