It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.