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.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

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

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.