The ingenuity of self-deception is inexhaustible.

Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

When thou has truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

I believe she would be jealous of a fine day, if her husband praised it.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.