No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed..

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it..

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil..

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed..

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody..

How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death..

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness..

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And dri….

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted..

we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's ….

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course o….

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure..

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladde….

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, ra….

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, t….

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it..

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper..

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God..

He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can f….

Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want….

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains..