Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.