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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.