Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.
The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.
