The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

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

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.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.