Fill each day with light and heart.

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

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.