The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

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

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.

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

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

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.