"Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?"

"If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them."

"All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life."

"To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so."

"The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well."

"As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved."