Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

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.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

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

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