The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.