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

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

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

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.

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.