Disease Is The Retribution Of Outraged Nature.

All Our Possessions Are As Nothing Compared To Health, Strength, And A Clear Conscience.

Man, Being Not Only A Religious, But Also A Social Being, Requires For The Promotion Of His Rational Happiness Religious Institutions, Which, While They Give A Proper Direction To Devotion, At The Same Time Make A Wise And Profitable Improvement Of His Social Feelings.

Folly Is Like The Growth Of Weeds, Always Luxurious And Spontaneous; Wisdom, Like Flowers, Requires Cultivation.

It Is Very Questionable, In My Mind, How Far We Have The Right To Judge One Of Another, Since There Is Born Within Every Man The Germs Of Both Virtue And Vice. The Development Of One Or The Other Is Contingent Upon Circumstances.

That Kind Of Discipline Whose Pungent Severity Is In The Manifestations Of Paternal Love, Compassion, And Tenderness Is The Most Sure Of Its Object.