Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.