It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

There is no college for the conscience.

I am conscious of eternal life.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.