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

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.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

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

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.