Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.