So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.