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.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.