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

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

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

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.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

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

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.