“Ignorance of the Scriptures is
ignorance of Christ.”
“Begin now to be what you will be
hereafter.”
“The face is the mirror of the
mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
“A friend is long sought, hardly
found, and with difficulty kept.”
“It is idle to play the lyre for
an ass.”
“Everything must have in it a
sharp seasoning of truth.”
“Do not let your deeds belie your
words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, ‘Why do you
not practice what you preach?’”
“A clergyman who engages in
business, and who rises from poverty to wealth, and from obscurity to a high
position, avoid as you would the plague.”
“It is worse still to be ignorant
of your ignorance.”
“When the stomach is full, it is
easy to talk of fasting.”
