It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.