The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.