Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.