It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

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

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.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.