It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.