There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.