A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.