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

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.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

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.

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

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