The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.