Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

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.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.