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

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

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

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.