Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.