The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

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

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.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

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

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.