I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.

Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.