Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.