It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

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.

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

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.