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.

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

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.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

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

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.