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

Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

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

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.