Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

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

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

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