The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.