If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.

nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.