The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.