Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.

Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.