O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.