To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed.

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.