If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.