Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.