The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

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.

We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

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.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.