No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.