I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

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.

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

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

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

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

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.