Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.