Dive on them and squash them if you must.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

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

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

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

Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.