All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

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.