Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.