There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

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

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.