There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.