We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

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