Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.