Quotes by Nathaniel Emmons

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea.

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.

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

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

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

Great objects from great minds.

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

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