Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
The way to rise is to obey and please.
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.