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.

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.

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

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

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.