Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.