Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

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.

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.