Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.