Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.