Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.