“None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.”

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

The judge is nothing but the law speaking.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I’ve remained an Indian.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.