Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

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

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.