God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.