Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.

That is good which doth good.

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.