Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Love is more just than justice.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.