It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.

Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.