My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

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

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.