God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.