Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Love is the river of life in this world.

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

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.