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.

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

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

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.

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

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.