That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.