A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

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

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

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.

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.

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.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.