The law of heaven is love.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.