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

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.

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

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

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

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.