Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.
His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
Souls are not saved in bundles.
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
If character is destiny, the good are damned.
The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.
