If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.