Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Try to be of some use to others.

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.