"Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, …"

"But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true…"

""In the midst of life we are in death," said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is …"

"I record the conviction that in one way or another, special individual help is given to every creature to endure to t…"

"If sin must be kept alive, then hell must be kept alive; but while I regard the smallest sin as infinitely loathsome,…"

"I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about pra…"

"Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And l…"

"What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed …"

"That is always the way with you men; you believe nothing the first time; and it is foolish enough to let mere repetit…"

"I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really inte…"