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.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

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.

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

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

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?

If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.