There is a variety in tempers of good men.

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

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

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

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

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

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.