Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

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

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

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

Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.