Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.