If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.