Ocupation: Author
Life: 1828 - 1911
Birthday: 1828
Death: 1911
God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]
Topics: Mean, Men, Deep Water, Future Happiness
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
Topics: Beautiful, Climbing, Sublime, Soap Bubbles, Sensual Pleasure
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.
Topics: Self, Done, Deeds
God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
Topics: God, Father, Adversity
The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.
Topics: Faults, Judgment, Merciful
