Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.