Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

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.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.