Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The tree is but a huge boquet.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.