Nathaniel Emmons Quotes (17 Quotes)

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

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

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

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

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.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.

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

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

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism on which a man can firmly fix his foot.

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

One principal reason why men are so often useless is, that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

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.

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

Dont 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.

Great objects from great minds.