Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

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.