When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

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

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

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

Great is the advantage of patience.