Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Let us try what love will do.