Pain is an outcry of sin.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.