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

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.

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.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

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.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

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