It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

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

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.