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.

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

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

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

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

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

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