We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.