The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

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.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

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.

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

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.