In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to be undetermined where the case is so plain, and the necessity so urgent. To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking, and sleeping, from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.

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

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

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

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

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.