The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion.…

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God.

The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and …