Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.