Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.