Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

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.

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.