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

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

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

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.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.