The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

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

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons of infinite worth may be derived.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.