Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

True repentance also involves reform.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.