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

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

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

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

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