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

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

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

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.

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.