Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People look none the handsomer for being red in the face. It takes a great deal out of a man to get into a towering rage; it is almost as unhealthy as having a fit. . . . Whatever wrong I suffer, it can not do me half so much hurt as being angry about it.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.