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

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

A good man's life is all of a piece.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

Believe things, rather than man.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

The judge is nothing but the law speaking.

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.

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

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

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 are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.

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

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

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.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

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

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

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

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.

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

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light
so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

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

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

Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Fear is prophetical of evil.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

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

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

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

Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good
a mere stranger will do no harm.

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

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

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

A benefactor is a representative of God.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

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

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

He that does not repent, sins again.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.

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

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

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

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

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

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.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

Joy is the life of man's life.

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

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

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