A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.