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

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.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

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

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

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.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.