Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something.

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.