When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.