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

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.

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

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

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

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.