It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.