» Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
» The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
» Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
» Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
» Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
» Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
» Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
» Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
» Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.