If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.