A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Mirth is God's medicine.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.