The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

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

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

A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.