There is a variety in tempers of good men..

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning..

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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..

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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 ….