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

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

Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

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.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.

Fill each day with light and heart.