It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.