Ibid Ibid

I saw in the museum at Venice an instrument with which one of the old Italian tyrants was wont to shoot poisoned needles at the objects of his wanton malignity. I thought of gossips, backbiters,

Sins seldom come alone; where there is room for one devil, seven other spirits more wicked than himself will find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow says of birds of prey, in

Illustrative preaching is intended as well for the unlearned as the learned, for converting the unlettered poor, whose souls are as precious in God’s sight as those of philosophers or kings. An humble woman well

When one speaks the name of my mother, and says to me, “Roxana,” it is no Greek that I think of; it is she that was a Connecticut woman, bred in an obscure neighborhood, quiet

A Christian woman went to the tract house in New York, and asked for tracts for distribution. The first day she was out on her Christian errand she saw a policeman taking an intoxicated woman

We ought to be induced away from all harshness by the fact that we ourselves are to be brought into high tribunal at the last, and that he shall have judgment without mercy that has

I plead for education, not because it is the highway to prosperity in law, or in medicine, or in the pulpit, or in political life, or in science, but because it means manhood. I plead