Inclination Snatches Arguments To Make Indulgence Seem

Conscientious People Are Apt To See Their Duty In That Which Is The Most Painful Course.

Pity That Consequences Are Determined Not By Excuses But By Actions!

Religious Ideas Have The Fate Of Melodies, Which, Once Set Afloat In The World, Are Taken Up By All Sorts Of Instruments, Some Of Them Woefully Coarse, Feeble, Or Out Of Tune, Until People Are In Danger Of Crying Out That The Melody Itself Is Detestable.

Plainness Has Its Peculiar Temptations And Vices Quite As Much As Beauty.

I Care Only To Know, If Possible, The Lasting Meaning That Lies In All Religious Doctrine From The Beginning Till Now.