Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

True repentance also involves reform.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.