Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

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.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.