A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.

Get with it, or get left behind.

How would I be doing this differently if I were WILLING to let it be easy?

I tend to have a very analytical mind, I'm constantly thinking about how things can be better or different.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.