'tis Hard Preaching A Stone Into Tears,

While Doubt Cannot Be Expelled, It Can Be Subdued.

I Must Confess, As The Experience Of My Own Soul, That The Expectation Of Loving My Friends In Heaven Principally Kindles My Love To Them While On Earth.

Our Very Business Is To Teach The Great Lesson Of Self-denial And Humility To Our People, And How Unfit Is It Then That We Should Be Proud Ourselves!

If A Man That Is Desperately Sick Today, Did Believe He Should Arise Sound The Next Morning; Or A Man Today, In Despicable Poverty, Had Assurance That He Should Tomorrow Arise A Prince: Would They Be Afraid To Go To Bed....?

It Is Not The Reading Of Many Books Which Is Necessary To Make A Man Wise Or Good; But Well Reading Of A Few.