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

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.