The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.