Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.