In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Never excuse yourself.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

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