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.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

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

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

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.