As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was a forgery, while the generality, professing to believe it genuine, should, less consistently, be satisfied with remaining ignorant of its contents, and when pressed, should discover themselves by no means to believe many of the most important particulars contained in it.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.