The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

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

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.