If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.