Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.