Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Of two evils, choose neither.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.