It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.

I have seen the sun with a little ray of distant light challenge all the powers of darkness, and without violence and noise, climbing up the hill, hath made night so retire that its memory was lost in the joys and sprightliness of the morning.

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.