Date: 1756, 1766

"Then only you are qualified for life, when you are able to oppose your appetites, and bravely dare to call your opinions to account; when you have established judgment or reason as the ruler in your mind, and by a patience of thinking, and a power of resisting, before you choose, can bring your ...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

Gold may invert the proper order of mind and body and produce "an apostasy that sets the inferior powers in the throne, and enslaves the mind to the body"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

We are "endued with an understanding which can acquire large moral dominion, and may ... sit as queen upon the throne over the whole corporeal system"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"This is the excellent law of reason or nature. There is a light sufficient in every human breast, to conduct the soul to perfect day, if men will follow it right onwards"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"But this is far from being the case of all gentlemen. If there be something stronger than virtue in too many of them, something that masters and subdues it; a passion, or passions, rebellious and lawless, which makes them neglect some high relations, and take the throne from God and reason; gami...

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"The throne of God rests upon reason"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Of all things in this world, moral dominion, or the empire over ourselves, is not only the most glorious, as reason is the superior nature of man, but the most valuable, in respect of real human happiness."

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Not according to promises and prayers at last, not according to legacies to be paid to the poor when we are dead, shall we be judged; but, as we have rectified the judgment and the will, made virtue the governor of the heart, and in all things sought God's glory, not our own"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Do [married women] all yield themselves intirely and universally to the government of conscience, subdue every thing to it, and conquer every adverse passion and inclination?"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)

Date: 1756, 1766

"Vouchsafe we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws"

— Amory, Thomas (1690/1-1788)