A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.