Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.