A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.