Conduct is more convincing than language.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.