The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.