If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.