These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.