There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.