Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.