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

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

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

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

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.