Man is emphatically self-made.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

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

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

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.