Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.

Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience