I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

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.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.