It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

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.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.