The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

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.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.