Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

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