A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.
We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.