The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.