Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Some persons resemble certain trees, such as the nut, which flowers in February and ripens its fruit in September; or the juniper and the arbutus; which take a whole year or more to perfect their fruit; and others, the cherry, which takes between two an three months.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.