A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

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.