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.

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

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

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

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