It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence…

- Timothy Dwight V

Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not educate their…

- Timothy Dwight V

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.

- Timothy Dwight V

To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial …

- Timothy Dwight V

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

- Timothy Dwight V

And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell.

- Timothy Dwight V

The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt the imaginati…

- Timothy Dwight V

Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the…

- Timothy Dwight V

The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously e…

- Timothy Dwight V