If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

Fill each day with light and heart.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.