That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

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?'