As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

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.