At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.