The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.