There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

A dull ax never loves grindstones.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.