God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.