Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

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

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

Sorrow makes men sincere.