Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

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!

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

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

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.