Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

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.

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

We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

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.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.