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

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.