Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

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

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

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