Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.