To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.