Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

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

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

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

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

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

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.