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

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..

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction..

Believe things, rather than man..

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

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher..

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

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel..

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

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws..

He that does not repent, sins again..

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use..

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

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

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

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself..

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

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

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul..

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

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here..