Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

Religion is using everything for God.