A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand.

McMahon 3:16 says 'I just pissed my pants!'