To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.