Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

Self-deception helps us deceive.