Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

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

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

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 most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.