A church debt is the devil's salary.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

The things that hurt us teach us.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.