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

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

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

It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

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