There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

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.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.