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

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

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

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.