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.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

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

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.