It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.