We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.