Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.