Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Experience is the mother of custom.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.