You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude
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.
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.
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
Of all things guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
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.