It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation..

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections..

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our near….

A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever ….

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undes….

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it..

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidenc….

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly..

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet….

Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practicall….

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at th….

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself..

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and ….

A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their….

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to….

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more..

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances..

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this..

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead..

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow..

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good..