He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.

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

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.