He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.
A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.