Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.