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 is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.