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

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

A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

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

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.

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