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

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

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

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.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.