It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

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

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

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.