23 Quotes by Nathanael Emmons

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

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.

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.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

I could never think well of a man’s intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

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