“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?