The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.