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

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.

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.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

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