I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.