Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

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

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.