Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!