Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

The things that hurt us teach us.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.