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

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

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

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

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.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.