Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.