Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

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.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

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.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.