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.

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

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

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.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

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