There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

True charity is liable to excesses and transports.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving.