Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.