A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. - Hosea Ballou

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.