The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.