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.

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

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.

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.

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

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

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