Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

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.

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

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

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.

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