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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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