Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.