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

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.