Marriages are said to be made in heaven. No, oh no! There may be a world of difference between the two who are joined together; and...
It makes no difference what you call men—prince, peer, or slave. Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every...
Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in...
Now all men that angle, or catch fish by the hook and line, know that it is individual work. It is one at a time. And...
The voyage of life should be right across the ocean, whose waters never shrink, and where the keel never rubs the bottom. But men are afraid...
To the Christian the shadow of death is the golden haze which heaven’s light makes when it meets the earth. But to the sinner these shall...
The victim pauses, gazes around upon the scene about his path of sin, and whispers, “Is it harmless?” “Harmless!” responds a serpent from the grass. Harmless!...
The most dangerous infidelity of the day is the infidelity of rich and orthodox churches.—BEECHER.
Our humiliations work out our most elevated joys. The way that a drop of rain comes to sing in a leaf that rustles in the top...
Hope is one of the chambers of the soul—if haply you can see the inscription over the door. It has two sides and two windows. From...