Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. – Martin Luther
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. – Martin Luther
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. – Martin Luther
People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther
It should be a pleasure to the appreciative reader, while recognizing their beauty, to cull these flowers of thought for the benefit of those who, less fortunate than himself, have not the time to indulge in literary pleasures. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech