It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Joy is the life of man's life.