Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law