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.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

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

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.