Nathaniel Emmons

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Great objects from great minds.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.