Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

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

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.