In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

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.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.