As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

What can money do to console a man with a headache?

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.