The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

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

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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.

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