In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

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

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

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.