Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.