Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.