Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.