A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.