Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.