If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.