I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.