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

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.