The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

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

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

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

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

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.