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

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

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

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

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

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.