Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.