Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.