Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.