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

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

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

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

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

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.

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.