If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, or some other. These affections we see to be the springs that set men agoing, in all the affairs of life, and engage them in all their pursuits: these are the things that put men forward, and carry them along.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.