Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

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

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 our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.