In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.