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.

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

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.

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

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

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