It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

Integrity gains strength by use.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Fill each day with light and heart.