Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

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

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.