It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.