I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul.