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

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

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

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

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

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

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.