Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

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

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

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

Hatred is self-punishment.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.