If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

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

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

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.