The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

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

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

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

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

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.

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