You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.