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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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