God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.