The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.