The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.