The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor