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

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.

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

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

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

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.