No man’s body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey’s end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them, – by laying them out in charity.

The true ground of most men’s prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a ‘blessing’ than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.

Many man’s scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey’s end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man’s invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.