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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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