To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.