Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

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

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.