How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.