Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

When circumstances don't fit our ideas they become our difficulties

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.