The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.