To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!