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

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Integrity gains strength by use.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.