We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

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

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

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

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.