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

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

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

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

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

Prayer is faith passing into action.

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