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

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

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

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

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

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