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

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.

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.