Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

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

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.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

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.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

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