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

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

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.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

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.

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

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