The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.