Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

After rain comes fair weather.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.