God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.