Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

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.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.