The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world..

No man's religion ever survives his morals..

A man's life is an appendix to his heart..

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends..

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his mise….

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it..

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature..

Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has los….

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason..

Pain is an outcry of sin..

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind..

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called..

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model..

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfacti….

The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most se….

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and f….

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker..

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible..

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion..

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise..