Absence of occupation is not rest.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which He closed His earthly ministrations, full of the sublimest dignity and tenderest affection, surpass everything that I ever read; and like the spirit by which they were dictated, fly directly to the heart.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs