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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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