Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

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

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

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

The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

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