Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.

The more you say, the less people remember.