Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.