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

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

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.