Fill each day with light and heart.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

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

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

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.