The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

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.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.