So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

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

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.