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.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

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

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