The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.