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

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

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

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

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

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?