You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

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

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

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

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

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