To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Continuous eloquence is tedious.