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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.