Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.