Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

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.

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Be a partaker, it’s the period of the end-time harvest

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one.

Love will turn you on your head.