I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.