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.

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

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

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.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

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