The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.