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…

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

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.

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

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 …

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continual…

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed.

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

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 …

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

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…

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

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.

- Thomas Hartwell Horne

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 …

- Thomas Hartwell Horne