Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

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.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.