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.

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

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

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

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

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.