The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.