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

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.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

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

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.

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

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.