Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

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

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.