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.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

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

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.

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.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.