A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.