Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.