If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

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

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.

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

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.