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

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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