Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.