When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

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.

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.

Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

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

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