A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.