We reverence God because he is infinitely great and powerful; and we love him because he is as good as he is powerful; and we know that whatever good we do to our fellow-creatures is acceptable to him, and is, indeed, commanded by him. […] The God whom we worship is infinitely wise. […] Hence the proverb, when we shunScylla we are lost in Charybdis, signifying, one of two dangers is inevitable. […] He taught that in order to live virtuously we must avoid the faults we see in others; that we should avoid saying any thing which another can repeat to our injury; that we should live with our friends as if they might one day become our enemies, and that health is the felicity of the body, and knowledge that of the mind. […] Refuse us what would be hurtful to us, even if we should ask it.”