Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
People talk as if the act of death made a complete change in the nature, as well as in the condition of man. Death is the vehicle to another state of being, but possesses no power to qualify us for that state. In conveying us to a new world it does not give us a new heart.