Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.