Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.