Birth: 1780 Death: 1862
When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed..
No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it..
He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it..
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continual….
In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own ….
To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign f….
The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment ….
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut o….
The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained ….
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon..