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.

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

Godliness is practical religion.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.