Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

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

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

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

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.