The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy! Your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms! And your need is the motive for heavenly goodness.