Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.