We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.

Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.