Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he; let him ask for a suit of clothes.

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.