Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Love is more just than justice.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.