intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.