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

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

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