Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

[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.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.