God planted the seeds of all the trees, continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and fo...
That all-seeing eye which reads the heart, could not fail to discriminate between the living and the dead, and the gentle soul of the unfortunate girl was already far removed beyond the errors, or dec...
The Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.
Has dropped into the river, said Hurry, after looking carefully along
Else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam.
When the colony's laws, or even the King's laws, run ag'in the laws of God, they get to be onlawful, and ought not to be obeyed.
Washington, who, after uselessly admonishing the European general of the danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the remnants of the British army, on this occasion, by his de...
Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
The turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My temple, Lord! that arch of thine; My censer's breath the mountain airs, And silent thoughts my only prayers. MOORE
In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized...
That dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread.
Nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport.
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no...
Means
If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
I want no thunder or lightning to remind me of my God, nor am I as apt to bethink on most of all His goodness in trouble and tribulations as on a calm, solemn, quiet day in a forest, when His voice is...