It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

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

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

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

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