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

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.