Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.