Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian..

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God..

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here..

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another..

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome..

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves..

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him..

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad..

Let not a man's self be to him all in all..

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil..

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves..

No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty..

There is no better way to learn than to teach..

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state..

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith..

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company..

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case..

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin..

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature..

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone..

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors..