Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body when they are not taken, and antidotes are received against them.

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.