All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.