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

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

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.

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.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

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.

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.