Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

A God without dominion providence and final causes is nothing else but fate and nature.

He that takes truth for his guide and duty for his end may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

We failed but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

It is impossible that anything so natural so necessary and so universal as death should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone in a single cottage on the top of a mountain a mile from any habitation? He replied that Providence was his next-door neighbor.