To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.