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

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

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

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.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

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