God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.