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

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.

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

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

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.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.