The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.