Golden Sentences

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, Nos. 8 & 9.

THE world will allow of a vehemence approaching to ecstasy, on almost any occasion but that which, above all others, will justify it.

IF we scrutinize the lives of men of genius, we shall find that activity and persistence are their leading peculiarities. Obstacles cannot intimidate, nor labor weary, nor drudgery disgust them.

WERE every dewdrop a diamond, every atom a world, and every world filled with gold,—all would not satisfy the boundless desires of the soul.

THE rose has its thorns; the diamond its specks, and the best man his failings.

ONE of Rutherford's golden sentences gives us the secret of his unusual unction: “The cross gives us much to say.”

IT is only for innocence that solitude can have charms.