The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

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.

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

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

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.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.