There is a variety in tempers of good men.

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

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

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

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?

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.