Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.