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

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

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

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.