Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.