All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.