[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

Scripture is the manger in which we find the Christ child.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death.