If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

Great is the advantage of patience.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

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

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

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