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.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

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

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.