"No man's religion ever survives his morals."

“The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.”

“For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.”

“A man's life is an appendix to his heart.”

“Of covetousness, we may truly say that it makes' both the Alpha and Omega in the devil's alphabet, and that it is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves, and the last which dies.”

“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”

“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.”