In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

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

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

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

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

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.