Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts..

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor foll….

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness..

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine..

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself..

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated..

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power..

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry..

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere..

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable..

The law of heaven is love..

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many e….

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden..

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important..

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle ….

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance..

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought..

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard..

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice..

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration..

Prosperity often presages adversity..