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

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all 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

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

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.