Nathanael Emmons Quotes

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

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

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

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.

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.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

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

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

How vast is eternity! – It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.