Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.