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.

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

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

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

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.